function strtotime(text, now) {
  //  discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/strtotime/
  //     version: 1109.2016
  // original by: Caio Ariede (http://caioariede.com)
  // improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
  // improved by: Caio Ariede (http://caioariede.com)
  // improved by: A. Matías Quezada (http://amatiasq.com)
  // improved by: preuter
  // improved by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
  // improved by: Mirko Faber
  //    input by: David
  // bugfixed by: Wagner B. Soares
  // bugfixed by: Artur Tchernychev
  // bugfixed by: Stephan Bösch-Plepelits (http://github.com/plepe)
  //        note: Examples all have a fixed timestamp to prevent tests to fail because of variable time(zones)
  //   example 1: strtotime('+1 day', 1129633200);
  //   returns 1: 1129719600
  //   example 2: strtotime('+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds', 1129633200);
  //   returns 2: 1130425202
  //   example 3: strtotime('last month', 1129633200);
  //   returns 3: 1127041200
  //   example 4: strtotime('2009-05-04 08:30:00 GMT');
  //   returns 4: 1241425800
  //   example 5: strtotime('2009-05-04 08:30:00+00');
  //   returns 5: 1241425800
  //   example 6: strtotime('2009-05-04 08:30:00+02:00');
  //   returns 6: 1241418600
  //   example 7: strtotime('2009-05-04T08:30:00Z');
  //   returns 7: 1241425800

  var parsed, match, today, year, date, days, ranges, len, times, regex, i, fail = false;

  if (!text) {
    return fail;
  }

  // Unecessary spaces
  text = text.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '')
    .replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ')
    .replace(/[\t\r\n]/g, '')
    .toLowerCase();

  // in contrast to php, js Date.parse function interprets:
  // dates given as yyyy-mm-dd as in timezone: UTC,
  // dates with "." or "-" as MDY instead of DMY
  // dates with two-digit years differently
  // etc...etc...
  // ...therefore we manually parse lots of common date formats
  match = text.match(
    /^(\d{1,4})([\-\.\/\:])(\d{1,2})([\-\.\/\:])(\d{1,4})(?:\s(\d{1,2}):(\d{2})?:?(\d{2})?)?(?:\s([A-Z]+)?)?$/);

  if (match && match[2] === match[4]) {
    if (match[1] > 1901) {
      switch (match[2]) {
      case '-': {
        // YYYY-M-D
        if (match[3] > 12 || match[5] > 31) {
          return fail;
        }

        return new Date(match[1], parseInt(match[3], 10) - 1, match[5],
          match[6] || 0, match[7] || 0, match[8] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
      }
      case '.': {
        // YYYY.M.D is not parsed by strtotime()
        return fail;
      }
      case '/': {
        // YYYY/M/D
        if (match[3] > 12 || match[5] > 31) {
          return fail;
        }

        return new Date(match[1], parseInt(match[3], 10) - 1, match[5],
          match[6] || 0, match[7] || 0, match[8] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
      }
      }
    } else if (match[5] > 1901) {
      switch (match[2]) {
      case '-': {
        // D-M-YYYY
        if (match[3] > 12 || match[1] > 31) {
          return fail;
        }

        return new Date(match[5], parseInt(match[3], 10) - 1, match[1],
          match[6] || 0, match[7] || 0, match[8] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
      }
      case '.': {
        // D.M.YYYY
        if (match[3] > 12 || match[1] > 31) {
          return fail;
        }

        return new Date(match[5], parseInt(match[3], 10) - 1, match[1],
          match[6] || 0, match[7] || 0, match[8] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
      }
      case '/': {
        // M/D/YYYY
        if (match[1] > 12 || match[3] > 31) {
          return fail;
        }

        return new Date(match[5], parseInt(match[1], 10) - 1, match[3],
          match[6] || 0, match[7] || 0, match[8] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
      }
      }
    } else {
      switch (match[2]) {
      case '-': {
        // YY-M-D
        if (match[3] > 12 || match[5] > 31 || (match[1] < 70 && match[1] > 38)) {
          return fail;
        }

        year = match[1] >= 0 && match[1] <= 38 ? +match[1] + 2000 : match[1];
        return new Date(year, parseInt(match[3], 10) - 1, match[5],
          match[6] || 0, match[7] || 0, match[8] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
      }
      case '.': {
        // D.M.YY or H.MM.SS
        if (match[5] >= 70) {
          // D.M.YY
          if (match[3] > 12 || match[1] > 31) {
            return fail;
          }

          return new Date(match[5], parseInt(match[3], 10) - 1, match[1],
            match[6] || 0, match[7] || 0, match[8] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
        }
        if (match[5] < 60 && !match[6]) {
          // H.MM.SS
          if (match[1] > 23 || match[3] > 59) {
            return fail;
          }

          today = new Date();
          return new Date(today.getFullYear(), today.getMonth(), today.getDate(),
            match[1] || 0, match[3] || 0, match[5] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
        }

        // invalid format, cannot be parsed
        return fail;
      }
      case '/': {
        // M/D/YY
        if (match[1] > 12 || match[3] > 31 || (match[5] < 70 && match[5] > 38)) {
          return fail;
        }

        year = match[5] >= 0 && match[5] <= 38 ? +match[5] + 2000 : match[5];
        return new Date(year, parseInt(match[1], 10) - 1, match[3],
          match[6] || 0, match[7] || 0, match[8] || 0, match[9] || 0) / 1000;
      }
      case ':': {
        // HH:MM:SS
        if (match[1] > 23 || match[3] > 59 || match[5] > 59) {
          return fail;
        }

        today = new Date();
        return new Date(today.getFullYear(), today.getMonth(), today.getDate(),
          match[1] || 0, match[3] || 0, match[5] || 0) / 1000;
      }
      }
    }
  }

  // other formats and "now" should be parsed by Date.parse()
  if (text === 'now') {
    return now === null || isNaN(now) ? new Date()
      .getTime() / 1000 | 0 : now | 0;
  }
  if (!isNaN(parsed = Date.parse(text))) {
    return parsed / 1000 | 0;
  }
  // Browsers != Chrome have problems parsing ISO 8601 date strings, as they do
  // not accept lower case characters, space, or shortened time zones.
  // Therefore, fix these problems and try again.
  // Examples:
  //   2015-04-15 20:33:59+02
  //   2015-04-15 20:33:59z
  //   2015-04-15t20:33:59+02:00
  if (match = text.match(
      /^([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})[ t]([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}(\.[0-9]+)?)([\+-][0-9]{2}(:[0-9]{2})?|z)/)) {
    // fix time zone information
    if (match[4] == 'z') {
      match[4] = 'Z';
    } else if (match[4].match(/^([\+-][0-9]{2})$/)) {
      match[4] = match[4] + ':00';
    }

    if (!isNaN(parsed = Date.parse(match[1] + 'T' + match[2] + match[4]))) {
      return parsed / 1000 | 0;
    }
  }

  date = now ? new Date(now * 1000) : new Date();
  days = {
    'sun' : 0,
    'mon' : 1,
    'tue' : 2,
    'wed' : 3,
    'thu' : 4,
    'fri' : 5,
    'sat' : 6
  };
  ranges = {
    'yea' : 'FullYear',
    'mon' : 'Month',
    'day' : 'Date',
    'hou' : 'Hours',
    'min' : 'Minutes',
    'sec' : 'Seconds'
  };

  function lastNext(type, range, modifier) {
    var diff, day = days[range];

    if (typeof day !== 'undefined') {
      diff = day - date.getDay();

      if (diff === 0) {
        diff = 7 * modifier;
      } else if (diff > 0 && type === 'last') {
        diff -= 7;
      } else if (diff < 0 && type === 'next') {
        diff += 7;
      }

      date.setDate(date.getDate() + diff);
    }
  }

  function process(val) {
    var splt = val.split(' '), // Todo: Reconcile this with regex using \s, taking into account browser issues with split and regexes
      type = splt[0],
      range = splt[1].substring(0, 3),
      typeIsNumber = /\d+/.test(type),
      ago = splt[2] === 'ago',
      num = (type === 'last' ? -1 : 1) * (ago ? -1 : 1);

    if (typeIsNumber) {
      num *= parseInt(type, 10);
    }

    if (ranges.hasOwnProperty(range) && !splt[1].match(/^mon(day|\.)?$/i)) {
      return date['set' + ranges[range]](date['get' + ranges[range]]() + num);
    }

    if (range === 'wee') {
      return date.setDate(date.getDate() + (num * 7));
    }

    if (type === 'next' || type === 'last') {
      lastNext(type, range, num);
    } else if (!typeIsNumber) {
      return false;
    }

    return true;
  }

  times = '(years?|months?|weeks?|days?|hours?|minutes?|min|seconds?|sec' +
    '|sunday|sun\\.?|monday|mon\\.?|tuesday|tue\\.?|wednesday|wed\\.?' +
    '|thursday|thu\\.?|friday|fri\\.?|saturday|sat\\.?)';
  regex = '([+-]?\\d+\\s' + times + '|' + '(last|next)\\s' + times + ')(\\sago)?';

  match = text.match(new RegExp(regex, 'gi'));
  if (!match) {
    return fail;
  }

  for (i = 0, len = match.length; i < len; i++) {
    if (!process(match[i])) {
      return fail;
    }
  }

  // ECMAScript 5 only
  // if (!match.every(process))
  //    return false;

  return (date.getTime() / 1000);
}